“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”

“I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.”

“Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”

“Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can.”

“You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”

“You like to tell true stories, don't you?' he asked, and I answered, 'Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.'Then he asked, 'After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it?Only then will you understand what happened and why.It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”